Mexico's Supreme Court decriminalized abortion nationwide Wednesday, two years after ruling that abortion was not a crime in one northern state.
That earlier ruling had set off a grinding process of decriminalizing abortion state by state.
Mexico City was the first Mexican jurisdiction to decriminalize abortion 15 years ago.
The impact also means that the federal public health service and any federal health institution must offer abortion to anyone who requests it, GIRE said.
The court ordered that the crime of abortion be removed from the federal penal code.
Persons:
GIRE
Organizations:
Mexico's, Group
Locations:
Mexico City, Mexico, Aguascalientes, America, United States